Jorge de Montemor

Jorge de Montemayor (Portuguese Jorge de Montemor ) (* 1520 in Montemor -o -Velho, Portugal, † February 26, 1561 in Turin) was a Portuguese singer, translator and poet.

Life

Not much is known about the life of Montemayor. It is believed that he came from a humble background and no knowledge of Latin had. He entered early into military service, then went to Castile, where he became a singer in the Royal Chapel, Philip II accompanied on his travels, and came in 1552 in the wake of Princess Johanna at the Portuguese court, where he remained several years. He died in 1561 in a duel.

Work

Through his famous but unfinished Diana ( first edition published in 1559 in Valencia and Milan), which is characterized by art of invention and character drawing as by beauty of language and applies to classic, was Montemayor inventor of the Castilian pastoral romance, which in the latest European literature imitations caused. The novel in Spanish is characterized by musical and poetic passages. It is about the unrequited love of a man named Sireno, the goddess Fortuna released from his torments of love. The work was banned in 1581 because of objections church in Portugal.

In the following years numerous continuation of Diana appeared, for example, by Alonso Perez and Gaspar Gil Polo ( Diana enamorada, Valencia 1564). We also have a collection of poems of Montemayor: Cancionero (Zaragoza 1561), and three small "cars " and a transfer of the seals of the troubadour Ausias March of 1562nd

Overview of the plants:

• Diálogo espiritual, 1548
• Exposicià moral sobre el salmo LXXXVI, 1548
• Los siete libros de la Diana, 1559
• Cancionero, 1561